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Disable 302 Redirection to Country Specific Domains

As many of you may know, Google is continuously releasing updates in order to improve its services. In Jan 31, 2012 Google started Country-Specific url redirect to blogger. What means that? - If you are viewing a blog with address example.blogspot.com from France (FR), then you'll be redirected to .fr domain - example.blogspot.fr. Similary, if you are viewing from United Kingdom it will be redirected to example.blogspot.co.uk! It is happening so that Google can easily block the content which is not appropriate for a specify country according to the law of that country and can easily server that same content in other country without any issues.

However, this redirection is "302 Redirect" which is a temporary change and not a 301 redirect which is a permanent change of address.

This country based URL redirection does mean some negative consequences to your blog!

With that redirection your Alexa Traffic Rank will be separated to different domains. So, for better search engine optimization (SEO), you can add the following piece of code to your template and it will always serve the .com address to your visitors.

Go to Design -> Edit HTML. Click on "Expand widget templates" and search for "</head>".
Now copy and paste the following code BEFORE the </head> tag.

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By default blogger has Blog name in the page title. You should remove blog name from page title to improve your search engin visibility. This will help you in two ways:
1. You will reduce number of charecters in the page title;
2. Your keyword will appear first.

For better search engine optimization (SEO), you want to delete the blog name from page titles and here is how to do it:

You just need to do a simple edit on your template (Design -> Edit HTML). Click on "Expand widget templates" and search for this code:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
and replace it with the code below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/></title></b:if>
After replacing the code, save the template. That is it!